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From Personalized Medicine to Personalized Aging Services

As medical models become more ubiquitous in developing strategies to provide long-term care services and support (LTSS), we need to ask whether these models adequately account for sources of diversity and disadvantage that affect access to and use of services by older adults. Medical models typicall...

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Autores principales: Glicksman, Allen, Rodriguez, Misha, Ring, Lauren, Liebman, Michael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8670719/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34917775
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab047
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description As medical models become more ubiquitous in developing strategies to provide long-term care services and support (LTSS), we need to ask whether these models adequately account for sources of diversity and disadvantage that affect access to and use of services by older adults. Medical models typically focus on categorizing information about the individual in order to clearly define current health status and appropriate treatment. Any individual, however, reflects the sum of their life experiences. Therefore, this medicalization approach can miss key factors in determining health outcomes including social determinants of health. Just as importantly, this approach can miss issues of values, beliefs, and assumptions that older adults can bring into the encounter with service providers. This issue is especially important when dealing with older migrant communities. Beliefs and attitudes shaped in their place of origin, as well as the migration experience, can influence levels of trust and resulting decisions regarding the use of LTSS. We need to integrate an understanding of how these beliefs and attitudes affect decision making into any model designed to improve the lives of older persons.
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spelling pubmed-86707192021-12-15 From Personalized Medicine to Personalized Aging Services Glicksman, Allen Rodriguez, Misha Ring, Lauren Liebman, Michael Innov Aging Invited Articles As medical models become more ubiquitous in developing strategies to provide long-term care services and support (LTSS), we need to ask whether these models adequately account for sources of diversity and disadvantage that affect access to and use of services by older adults. Medical models typically focus on categorizing information about the individual in order to clearly define current health status and appropriate treatment. Any individual, however, reflects the sum of their life experiences. Therefore, this medicalization approach can miss key factors in determining health outcomes including social determinants of health. Just as importantly, this approach can miss issues of values, beliefs, and assumptions that older adults can bring into the encounter with service providers. This issue is especially important when dealing with older migrant communities. Beliefs and attitudes shaped in their place of origin, as well as the migration experience, can influence levels of trust and resulting decisions regarding the use of LTSS. We need to integrate an understanding of how these beliefs and attitudes affect decision making into any model designed to improve the lives of older persons. Oxford University Press 2021-10-25 /pmc/articles/PMC8670719/ /pubmed/34917775 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab047 Text en © The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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